Susan J. Curry, Ph.D.
Dean, University of Iowa College of Public Health
Distinguished Professor of Health Management and Policy
Susan J. Curry will become Distinguished Professor of Health Management and Policy and the new dean of the University of Iowa College of Public Health effective Aug. 1. Dr. Curry is currently the Director of the Institute for Health Research and Policy and professor of Health Policy and Administration in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Prior to joining UIC, she was Professor of Health Services in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Washington and Senior Investigator and Director at the Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative. Dr. Curry earned her doctorate from the University of New Hampshire in 1981 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington.
 George Wehby, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
George Wehby received a PhD in Health Management and Policy with a concentration in health economics from the University of Iowa in 2006. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Pediatrics. He has extensive experience in applied econometric analysis and is interested in studying the demand for healthcare treatments and the effects of this demand on health, especially with applications in the area of maternal and child health. He is currently developing projects to look at disparities in health behaviors and outcomes by race, the impact of changes in insurance type on infant health, the effects of child disability on maternal fertility, and the role of income in health. He is currently funded by the NIH and the CDC. Dr. Wehby has been teaching Health Economics I to the MHA and Ph.D. students and joined the faculty on February 1.
Jason Hockenberry, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Jason Hockenberry received a Ph.D. in Economics from the Lehigh University in 2008. He has research experience in using applied microeconometric analysis to address issues related to public health and the economics of healthcare. His current research addresses the relationship between the human capital accumulation and depreciation of cardiac care providers and patients’ health outcomes. He is also currently working on an investigation into potential sources of the Hispanic mortality puzzle, an examination of the short and long term health and education outcomes of low birth weight babies using twin births, and a study examining the nature of the diffusion and substitution of less invasive, newer surgical technologies for well-established but more invasive surgical technologies. He is also developing a project to address the differences in post-operative behavior in patients after different coronary interventions. Dr. Hockenberry will be joining the faculty on August 4.
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